Tripoli is a mostly Sunni city that has in recent weeks witnessed sectarian clashes between Sunnis and minority Alawites, an offshoot Shiite sect that is aligned with Hezbollah and other pro-Syrian factions.

It was also the scene last year of fierce battles between the Lebanese army and a militant Palestinian faction, Fatah al-Islam, which is suspected of ties to Al Qaeda. Though the militants were routed, some of their leaders escaped and have issued various statements over the past year threatening to stage attacks. They claimed responsibility for killing a Lebanese soldier in the area in May.

Among the victims of the bombing were nine off-duty Lebanese army soldiers, making Fatah al-Islam a leading suspect. A statement issued by the Lebanese army also attributed the “terrorist attack” to the “sharp political bickering” that has continued in the country since the peace deal, a reminder that the underlying problems plaguing Lebanon have still not been resolved.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lebanon-bombing_sly_14aug14,0,4902802.story

I “love” it when terror-apologetic Arabists’ [anti-Israel bigots] use of their invented “brutalized” idea, this is of course a terrible attempt of rewriting history, as if these ‘Palestinian’ Arabs were not always about violence from the beginning.